Who we are

THE WILSON FOUNDATION is a UK registered charity established to give ‘a helping hand’ to young people in Northamptonshire. In memory of the late Connolly Thomas Wilson OBE, a Northamptonshire man who created a highly successful building company, the charity was formed in 1970. Since then his successors have remained loyal benefactors, donating considerable funds.

The young people of the Northamptonshire village of Holcot needed somewhere safe to meet: a potent mix of rural isolation - due to limited and expensive public transport - with peer-group pressures from drug dealers’ visits to the playing field, were creating the risk...